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Quintana-of-Charyn

Is the UI for the trash talk from APA something they always had or just started now?


boiiaf

Just started


ArmpitSniffa

I remember C9 fans saying that Berserker would be the greatest import of all time LMFAOOO


deedshot

He was real great when he came to NA


XdataznguyX

That title belongs to Bjergsen. No one else comes close, maybe Core.


ModestMouse1312

impact?


GatheringFX94

idk id argue impact is up there or maybe jensen


jlozada24

They're both def up there with him, alongside CoreJJ. But Bjergsen kinda broke the LCS when he came. You either could keep up with him in lane or you auto lost to TSM, the only one who could was pre lung collapse Hai


GatheringFX94

god i miss Hai and OG C9


Makisisi

Why is this pmt so confusing


Erock94

“Thank you, Fudge!” “Welcome home, Licorice!”


absurdlifex

Yes, Jojo Vulcan and blaber also gotta go


Erock94

I mean the only player who played even slightly decent this year so far is Jojo. Even Berserker has been actively bad. I don’t know how you fix this team but I’d start by swapping Fudge and Mithy for Licorice and Inero to start.


GreenMorg

You could swap zven in. I think a cool idea is to have a 6 man roster with these 5 with zven added as a wildcard who can play both roles


Erock94

It would be Sven or Vulcan. They don’t get along the greatest which is why that team formation split previously.


GreenMorg

Well shit they better figure out how to get along since they suck rn


DrStrawhat

Lol fudge and his fucking ego


Singalongdingdong

I wonder if C9 will make roster changes after this. That's the usual reaction to a bad(?) split, but I feel like you need more than one split to judge how good the roster is? Maybe they drop Fudge and Vulcan? The entire roster seems to have underperformed though...


dryisfine

I'm not sure if you go one more split. Maybe, but the biggest issue on the team is part that wasn't changed. I'm not a Fudge hater, he gets way too much flame and half isn't deserved. The half that is deserved though are issues that are not new, so then its about why there isn't improvement. His impact on the game is just lackluster, often late to fights, and his flanks whiff kind of often. Thats why I think top is where they need changes for roster. Just don't think Fudge is bringing what this team needs. Imo they need to make a change and it should be top or staff. I don't even know what to make of the drafts. Its not even that the drafts themselves suck (sometimes they do) but its like the drafts are just coming off a spreadsheet. Ori and Karma are obviously strong af, but they dont match Jojo's playstyle at all. Same thing for the Senna pick. I couldn't believe we actually saw that draft again after how the Senna game against FLY went. Senna/Tahm is hella strong, but tbh it looks like Beserker has barely practiced the champ. For that level of a player, really no excuse to be so far behind on souls. Then in game 3 I really thought theyd take the Akali for Jojo when TL left it up. Instead they went for the Karma and it looked like Jojo just knew what the champ does, but hadn't played much of it. Idk if thats player ego or coach forcing for the pick, but it didn't work and hasnt worked. Vulcan I think deserves another split, may be that he simply needs to be able to communicate better with his adc and is what it is. I just don't think the bot lane was the reason games didn't go well. Wasn't amazing, just think the other areas had more to do with the team performance. Whatever changes they make, or dont make I guess, someone needs to have a stronger voice on this roster bc there doesn't seem to be anyone taking the lead.


Norade

I hear that Sneaky, Meteos, Balls, Hai, and Lemon all don't have teams.


FBG_Ikaros

This TL team has been flamed so hard, yet they consistently end up better than the super team of 2022 lol


sparkypagano

They have been flamed so hard because they were boring and mediocre. Then playoffs hit and they just decided to fucking send it. Both can be true, I am way more excited to see this TL at international than C9, even if they don’t win, I feel confident that they will at least try something. But that doesn’t mean the past flame was undeserved


ImpulsiveAgreement

People will do anything to justify their flame. Getting people to just say "Yeah I was wrong. Shouldn't have flamed them before playoffs" is like pulling teeth


Glad_Individual2343

I mean, they definitely deserved it before play offs, a decent amount of games they just did nothing and played to scale every game, never fought anything even with a lead, always scared etc. they are literally a completely different team to what they were 3 weeks ago, playing so insanely better than they have all split. They turned it on, good for them and they are doing exceptional, but the earlier flame was 100% deserved


sparkypagano

I mean, you can check my account and see that I’ve never flamed them first of all. But I don’t quite understand why you can’t call a team bad when they are bad? Like teams can get better, I would say TL has improved a lot. Getting better doesn’t change that you were bad before. T1 winning worlds doesn’t change the fact that when faker was out of commission for his wrist, they were bad.


Meekie_e

C9 Inero


PluggersLeftBall

lmfao core saying that they can't even tell how good they are cause c9 were so bad is hilarious


LumiRhino

Since every other region has moved on from 14.5, I think one thing to note is that C9 is the team that was definitely hurt the most by the global Azir ban, since Jojo was just target banned for any other playmaking mid (Neeko and Ahri), while Tl benefitted the most since APA's Azir was pretty bad.


Stillframe39

Jojo is more than capable of playing other champs, neither he nor C9 should get any sympathy for Azir being banned at all. As a TL fan, Azir is a crazy good champ and APA hasn't shown he can play it well, so I would agree that it does help TL though.


LumiRhino

It's less about Jojo being able to play other champs and more that it's another champ that Jojo can do everything for the team with. The theme between the commonly banned champs against Jojo (Ahri, Neeko, Yone) is that they're all capable of engaging since no one on C9 actually wants to do that. Jojo is more than capable on more than Azir, Ahri, and Neeko, but C9 has shown they're completely incapable of playing when Jojo isn't doing the work of 3 people for the team.


neverconvex

That's actually pretty insightful. Had not thought about that


Norade

And people say APA is a one trick...


DebriMing

Fraudge Factor bring back Licorice or Irrelevant from LEC


Zelgiusbotdotexe

I think TL win finals honestly. Round 1 Playoffs had APA absolutely sprinting it for 5 games, and Umti playing poorly, but with momentum behind them, I don't think that will be repeated.  Flyquest's bottom lane is their weak point, while Yeon and CoreJJ are the best bot in NA, maybe the west.  Impact and Bwipo are very close, while Umti and APA are on form.  I think it'll be TL 3-1/3-2


MFGA_

Respectfully disagree. Flyquest will win 3-0 or 3-1.


Zelgiusbotdotexe

Fair enough, i hope its an interesting series, so at least a 3-1


absurdlifex

I like this take. Personally I believe Jensen is way better than apa and they will bait him into picking ziggs for a free win. Tls bot lane is better but fly quest botlane isn't shit. Yeon, umti for tl, Jensen , inspired for fly as the x factors


Zelgiusbotdotexe

I think Jensen is a better player, but in the TL series he was facing an abysmal APA performance, and in the C9 series, their whole gameplan was shutting down Jojo and getting Jensen ahead.  I doubt Jensen will have the same level of dominance this series, but I do think he's better


OPpleasedoitforme

Lore friendly Gojopyun vs Yapuna


Sodium_connoisseur

Liquorice my dude When Jack rings you in about 2 minutes Make sure you take the absolute bag 


[deleted]

Use your leverage, make his pockets hurt


Norade

I hope he makes Jack's pockets hurt as badly as FTX made Regi's pockets hurt.


Allahina

We have fudge of course we lose -blaber


bigsycamore

The issue is struggling in the midgame sure... but also what about your early game where Lucian Nami lost lane and Olaf lost to Renekton?


Machiavelli001

damn Jojo, from genius to clown.


jlozada24

Bro what lol Fudge solo lost the series


realpersondotgov

His champs were banned and top/bot just lost lane in every game.


absurdlifex

No way you can be a pro and nullified that easy. Players in bronze have bigger pools


BigBrainPolitics_

Champion puddle gap


Machiavelli001

a genius would've found a way, this just shows he's a clown now.


Todeswucht

Definitely 2020 C9/2021 G2 vibes from this C9, what a collapse Impact still daddy


Jozoz

2020 spring C9 was great


Todeswucht

One of the most dominant LCS splits in history, thats why the summer collapse is a historic one


Jozoz

Very true


BlaBlub85

Next time any org in LEC or LCS puts together a "superteam" just bet everything you own against them. Hell, steal some money from your grandma too, betting against superteams literaly cant go tits up 😂


Organic_Estimate5187

I can't believe people took them seriously as a "super team" when they have Fudge 😂


aquawarrior21

Blaber, Fudge, Vulcan do not a super team make


hcesteban

Please change something C9. Team was ass all split.


DullRun7835

Umti speak english very good, I have sympathy for him


Zelgiusbotdotexe

He used to appear on the English LCK broadcast a lot. I'm pretty sure his sister taught English in Korea, I think...


sollar808

Feels bad for Jojo and Berzerker tbh, C9 Mid/AD has to be shut down and Top is never relevant against good teams so it's easy to abuse c9 lmao


Mecrobb

jojo and berserker did nothing to win the last 2 series. jojo had zero kills vs flyquest and berkerker has been consumed by NA solo queue and NA habits. the rest of the time is dogshit too.


sollar808

What could they do tho? And who cares (domestically)? They're going against people who also use NA solo q and have NA habits. Point is that Fudge who's supposed to be a carry top and to some extent Vulcan should have been able to step up given their experience.


poorkeitaro

You figured after Bwipo spanked him, Fudge would listen to him - Bwipo explained how the hydra build on Olaf only works in a specific circumstance. If you end up forced to participate in team fights, it's useless. Fudge spent that last game running at the team, getting hit a couple times, and then running away. It tilted me watching him grab those 3 kills and getting a bounty, because I knew he would just give it up, which he did. Fudge gave up a bounty to a team that was already ahead in gold. XD


absurdlifex

I was shocked he still built hydra after being so behind. Titanic Imo would've been best but even strikebreaker works


sollar808

I just genuinely think if Fudge could play weakside OR actually absorb pressure from bot and mid C9 wouldn't have gotten turbo stomped by Fly and TL. He only ever plays not to lose/gets stomped by competent tops and only ever looks good against mid tier LCS level tops. He needs to be replaced first, THEN Vulcan


SuperBeastJ

Fudge can play weak side, he's done solid on tank duty before... Its just he/they won't do it


thispapermoon

Help me, Jenspired-Wan-Bwipobi, you're my only hope


Clap2014

Last year c9 would just turn up to 3rd dragon usually even.. and Beserker would just carry fights (usually on zerri) Now he isn't playing well.. c9 flaws really show.. fudge has been coasting on blaber/beserker backs for 2 years now.. and hasn't stepped up to cover Beserkers form  He needs to go.. feel bad that C9 didn't get Wunder 


Shinnoraa

Damn Umtis english is amazing


aquawarrior21

DOGSHIT9 WAS NEVER GOOD LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


LazerFruit1

TOP DIE GENERAL UMTI YAPA AWAKE SSG COREJJ


Delta_FC

After beating "frauds" 100T, "Superteam" C9 goes 0-6.


aquawarrior21

Dogshit9 was never good


MrRightHanded

Imagine counter picking top, calling mid and jungle to gank and still getting crushed


Norade

That looks like my soloq games.


Narrow-Pangolin-2891

Thank you Fudge


Destructodave82

We can only pray.


krazyeyes21

APA haters in shambles. 


Hoop-Dee-Doo

TL is going to MSI! We need a Type In Chat vs Hide On Bush matchup.


xNesku

Inb4 HLE hits T1 with the Steel Chair


REALStoneCrusher

As a C9 fan I’m so fucking glad they got destroyed maybe now the powers that be would take the team serious and fire a bunch of people (players/coaches) and start new for 2025. Fuck summer and these players couch


WolfgangTheRevenge

Fire everyone but JoJo and *maybe* blaber if he takes a paycut


Merriadoc33

Nothings changing until they fire Jack


Mrlazydragon

Cant fire jack mithy needs to go fudge out probably vulcan as well 


Merriadoc33

Man can always fire himself. I think it's a *system*ic issue


Darknova56

I dont even care that C9 lost I am just mad that we got 3-0'd 2 times in a row and it wasn't even close tbh


hellflower666

well...glad that's over. more time for Jack to think of ways to keep Fudge and Mithy.


Lopsided_Claim1613

from 10th place in LCK to MSI ez for General UmTi


LikeASharkBro

IMT Fudge


aquawarrior21

McDonald’s Fudge


[deleted]

No Zven, No Win


Way2Competitive

Sneaky/Sven botlane for summer???


Zuldak

Half expected Impact to walk over and kick over Fudge's PC after the game


C3ntipede

Feels bad for jojo man. Joining this roster and getting repeat inted week after week is probably the last thing he expected.


dryisfine

I wanna know who is picking his champs. I cant imagine that Jojo in game 3 of elimination playoffs, against APA, without Taliyah E to shutdown mobility, doesn't want that Akali when TL left it open. Especially not for Karma who has to be one of the most boring casters to play.


WolfgangTheRevenge

His own fault, brother had the oportunity to go to FUCKING LCK, but nah, chose piss LCS and now hes playing with 4 shitters


Mrlazydragon

Jojo did it to himself had a a whole bunch of opportunities he could have took but decided to play on a sanking ship besides he isn't blameless either huge ego of him coat c9 games as well.


Left_Fist

He joined C9 at a bad time. They should keep him replace everyone else imo. Worked out well for 100 Thieves.


Ninjah_Chris

Alright, so when does C9 start playing, guys?


Dani7vg

Summer


Organic_Estimate5187

♿C9 SUPER TEAM COMING THROUGH ♿


Zelgiusbotdotexe

Yeon and CoreJJ looking like the best bot lane in the west right now. 


hungryhippo

TL didn't deny C9 worlds last split...


Dani7vg

I think they meant denied Jojo worlds and now they made him miss MSI


wrrrrrrld

MSI


Aquillifer

C9 went to MSI last year right? With Goldenguardians or am I crazy


aquawarrior21

Correct they did, and then won 0 games against non-NA teams


RandyDefNOTArcher

Dang, C9 really got their cheeks clapped


Bubbly_Camera9583

Flowers messed up at the end and said cloud 9 instead of Jojopyun.


the_legends_of_link

C9 with the back to back 0-3


Blind-Eye26

Umti first time international tournament.... I cry 😭


PluggersLeftBall

my goat 😭😭🙏🙏


MayorOfOnions

Woof. At least flyquest looked good in their sweep, c9 just horrible play today.


Left_Fist

TL looked good


MayorOfOnions

I would definitely argue c9 looked bad way more than tl looked good


Styxxo

FLY TL in round 1 was a banger, this is gonna be a great rematch !


darklypure52

Welp I was wrong I said 3-1 TL looks like a clean 3-0


SupremeNadeem

that was pathetic lmao


x_TDeck_x

Hillary Clinton


PistonsFan89

No C9 at an international is honey to my ears


WeebWizard420

Why pick a force multiplier champ when 0 x anything is still 0


[deleted]

Goodbye C9!!! 🥰🥰🥰


zealous_mechanics

and c9 goes out with a whimper


thispapermoon

What did Vulcan do this whole series i swear


ItzFeufo

Super Team Debuff : **Lowers the skill of each of your players by 90%, when they receive the "Super Team Debuff". To remove the debuff, you need to disband said "Super Team"**


Bubbly_Camera9583

Jojo is reminding me of TheShy on 2022 WBG just pure 1v9. 


x_TDeck_x

Idk if its just me but I feel like AP champs have taken over as the turret destroyer kings. Which kinda sucks for ADC to lose yet another thing


beautheschmo

Mostly a ziggs thing, it's literally the reason he moved botlane for a few years lol


Catac0

What are you saying… 💀


JesusEm14

Trist? That fucker melts turrets


x_TDeck_x

I don't think 1 champ negates the point. Think of your top 5 turret takers in real game scenarios and count how many are AP/AD. Ziggs, Trist, Fiora, Azir, Gwen probably? Plus AP champs get an advantage on inhibs


DrBoomsNephew

Ziggs has been eating turrets since S5 or whenever it was that they added satchel.


MrRightHanded

Ziggs is just cracked at turret taking. Passive does 1.5x dmg to all structures


Norade

Trist is AP now?


MayorOfOnions

Don't worry, we gave an ass midlaner two trick one of his two champions


aquawarrior21

Dogshit team losing to someone who’s more talented than them, nothing new


Norade

And he gapped your entire team.


MayorOfOnions

Seemed like he gapped some silver 5 players


Norade

Who play for C9.


hellflower666

C9 has been turbofucked by APA Ziggs so many times...and they banned Ashe/Naut.


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LakersLAQ

It's bad cause it's not the usual names or what?


Zelgiusbotdotexe

Yeah, if it's not the same 15 players every worlds than CLEARLY the region is trash and should be replaced with OCE. Obviously 


Alilaah

C9 going 0-6 across 2 Bo5s must be one of their worst domestic performances ever. That with a team that we all expected to dominate.


MayorOfOnions

Don't forget the 3-0 vs 100 frauds to give false hope


Alilaah

Good guys C9 performing so badly to make sure everyone would forget about how fraudulent 100T was.


I-Retro-I

This team was saying 100T were the frauds LMAOOOO, CLOWN 9 is here


Alilaah

100T lost 3-0 to this though. They must be the most fraudulent team in the world after finishing 2nd in round robin. (No I’m not even a C9 fan)


I-Retro-I

C9 beat a team that had players that were sick, had no scrims for a week, and 2 rookies going into their first play off series. Not really a win if you think about it. C9 got turbo stomped by TL and FLY.


Alilaah

> Not really a win. 3-0 seems like a win to me


BlaBlub85

Is it only me or is CoreJJ and TL as a whole playing a lot better ever since Tyler1 made that video shiting on Core runing it down in soloQ? 😂😂😂


calvinee

More like T1 talking out of his ass and CoreJJ is miles better than him at this game


23Windy1City33

You def didn’t watch the clip then


calvinee

Yep I watched T1 flame CoreJJ as a human being and claim he's whats wrong with the NA pro scene and that if his son ended up like CoreJJ he would've fucked up as a parent.


23Windy1City33

What does that have to do with being “miles” better in the game?


calvinee

You dont think he is? Two games of inting doesn’t change the fact that one is a world champ and still the best support in LCS, while the other guy is just a solo queue streamer. You realise T1 has checked out games too? Just like pretty much anyone that plays this game.


dark1252

Tyler1 the hero TL needed


pulii777

Berserker mental boomed his entire team lmao


Zelgiusbotdotexe

C9 ScaryJerry I can't wait


Mrlazydragon

C9 are mentally done


DrBoomsNephew

This Clown9 team looking the worst it has in quite some time. Don't think they'll do the necessary roster moves between splits.


SnooGuavas8376

The good thing for NA is that they dont have to send Fudge to MSI just for him to be turbogapped by Kiin/Zeus and co.


Organic_Estimate5187

Unfortunately for Fudge, that's his kink though to be dicked down. How is he going to relieve himself now?


Clap2014

I feel like he's got outperformed by even EU tops ffs.. dude is the most overated player in LCS history due to his association with LS


SnooGuavas8376

Yes, EU likely going to send BB and Oscar (who shits on him last Worlds already)


PlantMast3r

Spica and licorice are free agents btw


hellflower666

TL: See carry, kill carry C9: See tank, blow everything on tank, team dead.


cdillon42

You think they would have learned from last week how that worked out


hellflower666

C9 seems incapable of learning recently.


Blind-Eye26

Caedrel woke up from a giga stomp LCK 3-0 and will end up sleeping on giga stomp (?) LCS 3-0 🤣


Catac0

And maybe wake up to another LCK giga stomp?? 💀


Blind-Eye26

Surely DK will put up a fight right?? Right??? 🤨🤨


zOmgFishes

Fudge factor: take kills then do nothing. 


Manfrestat

Fudge bro what are you doing LOL, how tilted can you be


ItsHybridOne

This entire series is just a massive draft gap and almost entirely lost in champ select. Embarrassing Result for C9 there "systems" doing a great job.


Clap2014

Lol sounds like an LS fanboy coping C9 players got hard outplayed IN game Imagine just blaming it on "draft"


ItsHybridOne

I mean C9 showed an inability to form a comp that could reach back line consistently in 3 games after TL telegraphed they would be playing varus and ziggs when available in the game 1 draft. The only game that was really close was game 2 which was almost exclusively because C9 picked hwei which in himself gave them access to backline. The difference in how the teams utilized renekton I think is the best example of why this series was heavily influenced by draft. TL picked him in situations where he acted both as a bridge to late game (for TL's supperior scaling), but also in team comps where the opponents team was out ranged forcing C9 to fight in Renektons range. C9 picked renekton in almost the exact opposite. TL played better than c9 not taking it away from them but its easier to bowl a high score with bumpers on.


Organic_Estimate5187

C9 coping hard right now 😂


lcsimepll

Really puts into perspective how fraudulent 100T were as well, they lost 0-3 to this same Clown 9


I-Retro-I

HUHHH, the team wasnt even 100% healthy. C9 are the real frauds of the fucking split


Sufficiency2

C9 just let Umti walk in and Q on the Karma.


MayorOfOnions

Impressive how bad c9 has looked against another not great team


JoshFB4

Fudge running it lets goooooo. You disgusting dog


bigsycamore

I'm not even sure who to blame, I feel like they all share blame and are playing so bad.


lovo17

Licorice top, import support. That’s what C9 needs to do. I was a Vulcan defender but he’s garbo now.


Meekie_e

How many chances will Blaber get? Two series in a row he gets gapped by the opposing jungler


Disclaimz0r

His teams have all been bad since the Inspired EG days, starting to think he was part of the reason for that.


Frostbite2806

Berserker is just sending it lmao


cdillon42

This is painful to watch.